Flexible Gateway for Heterogeneous-Device Management

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol use a contention-based channel access protocol.

3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the contention-based channel access protocol comprises carrier-sense multiple access with contention avoidance.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device comprises one of: an access point, or an eNodeB.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the shared band of frequencies comprises 2.4 GHz.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol comprise two of: Bluetooth, Bluetooth low energy, Zigbee, Z-Wave, LoRaWAN, Thread, 6LoWPAN and an IEEE 802.11-compatible communication protocol.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first interface circuit and the second interface circuit are configured to communicate one or more packets or frames addressed to the one or more other electronic devices at the same time.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the port comprises a Universal Serial Bus.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol use a contention-based channel access protocol.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the contention-based channel access protocol comprises carrier-sense multiple access with contention avoidance.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the electronic device comprises one of: an access point, or an eNodeB.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the shared band of frequencies comprises 2.4 GHz.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol comprise two of: Bluetooth, Bluetooth low energy, Zigbee, Z-Wave, LoRaWAN, Thread, 6LoWPAN and an IEEE 802.11-compatible communication protocol.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the first interface circuit and the second interface circuit are configured to communicate one or more packets or frames addressed to the one or more other electronic devices at the same time.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol use a contention-based channel access protocol.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the contention-based channel access protocol comprises carrier-sense multiple access with contention avoidance.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the electronic device comprises one of: an access point, or an eNodeB.